Post-doc at the University of Cambridge (uK), 2005-2008: Experimental investigation of the perceptual correlates of violin acoustics

Description of the project:

This Leverhulme Trust funded project was conducted at the University of Cambridge, with Jim Woodhouse in the Engineering Dpt, Brian Moore in the Experimental Psychology Dpt, Ian Cross in the Faculty of Music and Alan Blackwell in the Computing Lab.

If you don't have much time, you can read a brief description of the project here. Otherwise, a more complete report is presented here.

Publications:

Fritz C., Blackwell A.F., Cross I., Woodhouse J. & Moore B.C.J. (2012) Exploring violin sound quality: Investigating English timbre descriptors and correlating resynthesized acoustical modifications with perceptual properties. J. of the Acoust. Soc. of Am. 131(1), 783-794. Copyright (2012) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.

Fritz C. (2010) The violin: perceptual studies and acoustical correlates. Invited paper at the joint 159th ASA Meeting and Noise-Con 2010, Baltimore, USA. J. of the Acoust. Soc. of Am. 127, 1791. Selected for a lay-language paper, available here.

Fritz C., Woodhouse J., Cheng F.P-H., Cross I., Blackwell A.F. & Moore B.C.J. (2010). Perceptual studies of violin body damping and vibrato. J. of the Acoust. Soc. of Am. 127(1), 513-524.

Fritz C., Cross I., Blackwell A.F., Moore B.C.J., Feygelson E. & Woodhouse J. (2009) Acoustical correlates of violin timbre descriptors. 5th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Paris.

Fritz C., Blackwell A.F., Cross I., Moore B.C.J. & Woodhouse J. (2008) Investigating English Violin Timbre Descriptors. In K. Miyazaki, Y. Hiraga, M. Adachi, Y. Nakajima, & M. Tsuzaki (Eds.), Proc. 10th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition (ICMPC 10), 638-641, Sapporo, Japan.

Fritz C., Woodhouse J., Moore B.C.J. & Cross I. (2008) Perceptual studies of violin vibrato. Acoustics 08, Paris.

Fritz, C., Cross, I., Woodhouse, J. & Moore, B.C.J. (2007) Perceptual thresholds for detecting modifications applied to the acoustical properties of a violin. J. of the Acoust. Soc. of Am., 122(6), 3640-3650.

Fritz, C., Cross, I., Woodhouse, J. & Moore, B.C.J. (2007). Perceptual effects of violin acoustical modifications. ISMA 07, Barcelona, Spain.

Fritz, C., Cross, I., Woodhouse, J. & Moore, B.C.J. (2006). Psychoacoustic experiments with virtual violins. Invited paper at ASA-ASJ 4th Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. J. of the Acoust. Soc. of Am., 120, 3364.

Fritz, C., Cross, I., Peterson, U., Weaver, K., Williamson, E., Woodhouse, J. & Moore, B. (2006) Perceptual correlates of violin acoustics: preliminary studies. In M. Baroni, A. R. Addessi, R. Caterina, M. Costa, Proc. 9th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition (ICMPC 9), pp1864-1871, Bologna, Italy.

Woodhouse, J., Cross, I., Moore, B. C. J. and Fritz, C. (2006). Perceptual tests with virtual violins. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference (Southampton, UK).